Strap in Ishmael, on today’s episode we talk about “The Whale or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bird” which is the latest entry in Darren Aronofsky’s long line of films that are known, for various reasons, to elicit extremely visceral reactions from the audience.

Charlie, our main character and a recluse college writing instructor, is likely living the last week of his life. Before it’s over he is visited by an End Time’s religious missionary, a pizza delivery man named Dan, and his estranged teenage daughter. Tragedy, mystery, and redemption are the main drivers of this unfortunate slice of life we are given the opportunity to take a look into.

From its beginnings as a single set stage play to its 10 year transformation into a single set movie we’ll discuss how this movie came to be, some technical aspects of the filmmaking process, and even dive into some symbolic analysis of the movie’s most interesting character… a bird.

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